While listening to an audiobook yesterday, I found out that Dr. Michael Newton passed away in 2016. His works, Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls were the most impactful books I read on my journey. It’s interesting to find out now that he passed away years before I started my journey. His books taught me about life between lives. I think I gravitated towards it even more because he too was very skeptical about what he stumbled across with his practice. It was not something he wanted to find, but he did and he shared it. I am certain I’ll have more words to discuss hypnotherapy and Michael Newton later, but for now I think I will dedicate my next post to my thoughts on why we are here. Michael Newton’s books really set me on this new age understanding of souls and our purpose as humans and what I now believe.
So first lets talk about human life. We are beings that seem to be set up to suffer. From suffering comes the opportunity to grow further. This is the idea of survival and evolution. Without growth do we even have purpose? My difficulties with Heaven when I was younger was that a Utopia would ultimately become boring. If the world existed without any of the issues that we face every day, what purpose would we have? What lessons could be learned? If you don’t believe me, think about what an eternity would look like just doing the same thing every single day. What is there to gain? Whenever we find ourselves bored, we can pick up a new hobby and just go with it. It’s my feeling that the purpose of human life is to grow.
So with that line of logic, how does this play into the existence of life after death? What purpose would we have to learn lessons in a hardened world that could impact what we can do in a place of perfection? Every experience and every life that we go through, teaches us. How many lifetimes do you think you’d need to go through to learn every single lesson there is to learn on Earth? What if there are other Earths with different rules of living? There are too many things to be seen or to do.. yea, it is the Circle of Life. But, really think about it.
I look at each life as a spark and as you grow the spark also grows. When we die, we still exist as that spark. I do not think that our growth as that single spark ever stops. By guiding people still on Earth facing similar challenges or understanding how our decisions impacted the lives around, there is still so much to learn and grow from, even on the other side. Eventually, the growth of original spark slows down, and so a fragment gets cut off and a new spark inhabits a new body. The new spark faces different challenges and seeks to learn lessons that were not learned the first time around. It can grow larger or smaller than the first one. It doesn’t really matter because all knowledge is sacred. Each spark regardless of its size, servers its purpose. What is that purpose? Well, after this new life is done, the new and old spark come together to form an even bigger and brighter spark. Without these two sparks, the brilliance of the combined spark could never be achieved. It continues to do this over and over and over again and the spark continues to grow. This spark that exists is one soul, but there are countless other souls doing the same thing. As our sparks combine to form our oversoul, we do not lose those original identities from each smaller spark. It would be impossible to do so. Losing an identity would make us smaller.
Now let’s talk about others. Every spark that exits is connected to other sparks that were critical in making the spark larger and brighter. We connect to other sparks through bonds of light, and by doing so we create a web of connectivity. Only together can we grow even further by combining all of our sparks. We then continuously grow as a society or group. We recognize and fully envelop the idea that we are all connected and deeply one. As our community soul grows, we come together and use our energy to create newly independent sparks to help us grow further as different souls (Though are we ever truly different if we are made up of the same energy?). As these new undeveloped souls grow on their own, they continue to grow the community soul even further.
This is my idea of a God concept. I believe, if a God exists, it is so far above where we are at as our sparks or souls. We are fragments that have been given the ability to think independently and find ways to grow ourselves in different ways. As we promote ourselves as souls that have become wiser with experience we help our ‘God’ grow as well. By helping others grow, we complete the same goal. Eventually, our communities may grow to the size of our ‘God’ and look back to see new souls contemplating the existence of their universe in much the same way we are now.
It’s easy to question what the purpose of endless growth is. Anything for eternity could grow boring. However, I think with each ‘evolution’ or change in our spark, we face new challenges that we need to learn and grow from. It’s impossible to know if there is ever an end. Especially with timelessness.. Which throws its own whole wrench in this theory. All I can think right now is that as a human being, the one thing that is constant and exists in every time period and every lifetime is the need to grow. If there is a human concept that can match the infinite nature of the soul, it would be growth.
